Heyse, Liesbet.

Choosing the Lesser Evil : Understanding Decision Making in Humanitarian Aid NGOs. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (252 pages) - Non-State Actors in International Law, Politics and Governance Ser. . - Non-State Actors in International Law, Politics and Governance Ser. .

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- Preface -- 1. Choosing The Lesser Evil: Selecting Humanitarian Aid Projects -- Part I: NGO Decision Making in Theory -- 2. Filling a Void in NGO Research: Understanding Diversity in NGO Behavior -- 3. Opening the Black Box of Internal NGO Dynamics: An Organizational Decision-Making Perspective -- 4. Towards the Reality of Humanitarian Aid Provision: Three Sketches of NGO Behavior -- Part II: MSF Holland Decision Making in Practice -- 5. Traces of the Administrative Organization: MSF's Organizational Features -- 6. Consequentionality in Aid Provision: MSF's Dominant Decision-Making Pattern -- 7. Disagreement, Commitment, and Constraints: MSF's Secondary Decision-Making Patterns -- 8. From Consequential to Garbage Can Decision-Making: Two Examples of MSF Aid Provision to Africa -- Part III: ACT Netherlands Decision Making in Practice -- 9. The Opposite of the Administrative Organization: ACT Netherlands' Organizational Features -- 10. Working With 'The Family': ACT's Dominant Decision-Making Pattern -- 11. Working Outside 'The Family': ACT's Secondary Decision-Making Patterns -- Part IV: Comparison and Conclusion -- 12. Decision-Making Dynamics in MSF and ACT: Comparison and Discussion of Research Results -- 13. A Look Beyond the Horizon: Identifying Steps towards Theoretical Generalization -- Epilogue: Complexity Reduction through Decision-Making: Intended and Unintended Consequences in Humanitarian Aid -- Appendix: Research Methodology, Data Collection, and Operationalization -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W.

How do non-governmental humanitarian aid organizations initiate, terminate and extend their project activities? Humanitarian aid organizations regularly face difficult decisions about life and death in a context of serious time constraints which force them daily to select whom to help and whom not to help. Liesbet Heyse focuses on how humanitarian aid organizations make these decisions and provides an inside view of the decision making processes. Two NGO case studies are used as illustration - Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) and Acting with Churches Together (ACT) - both of which operate in an international network and represent specific types of NGOs often found in the community. This book opens up the black box of NGO operations, provides an empirical account of organizational decision making and combines insights of organization theory and organizational decision making theory.

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Action by Churches Together (Organization). -- Netherlands.
Humanitarian assistance -- Decision making -- Case studies.
Humanitarian assistance -- Decision making.
Médecins sans frontières (Association). -- Holland.
Non-governmental organizations -- Decision making -- Case studies.
Non-governmental organizations -- Decision making.


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